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    Break up

    Manuscripts

    This collection contains the papers of Gloria Molina, who was a Los Angeles County Supervisor of the First Supervisorial District from 1991 to 2014. This collection is mainly comprised of records created and accumulated during her years on the Board of Supervisors. These materials -- including correspondence, agenda, motions, reports, press clippings, notes, ephemera, site plans, photographs, audiovisual and electronic resources -- document a wide range of activities performed by Molina and her staff, such as project planning, legislation, lawsuits, redistricting, campaigning, and budget planning.

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    Breaking up of the Agamemnon

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    Sudden breaking up of a consultation

    Visual Materials

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    [Breaking up of the Blue Stocking Club]

    Visual Materials

    A watercolor and ink drawing satirizing a Blue Stockings Club meeting turned violent with five pairs of women fighting while dressed in blue stockings and torn attire. The scene depicts women attacking each other with scalding water, a brass trivet, and pulling each other's hair while raising their fists. The women wrestling in the foreground are illustrated with exaggerated facial features and are partially nude as their garments and hair are disheveled during their fight. Details include three frightened cats leaping in reaction to the brawl while surrounded by falling furniture, spilling tea sets, and overturned chamber pots. Two bottles of alcohol are illustrated spilling on the floor, one is labeled "French Cream" and the other "Ratafia." In March 1815, the watercolor drawing was slightly altered and printed by publisher Thomas Tegg as hand-colored etchings titled Breaking up of the Blue Stocking Club.

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